King County will celebrate the Eastside’s ‘Traily McTrailface’ July 20

Drum roll, please ! Join us on July 20 at the Redmond Central Connector Park and be the first to see the Eastside Rail Corridor's new name. To help us celebrate we will have live music, a bike rodeo for kids and more! . https://t.co/hOSg9yEbsv pic.twitter.com/X8vLenjKZV

- King County Parks (@iheartkcparks) July 11, 2019

Yeah, no. The Eastside Rail Corridor Trail will not be named Traily McTrailface. Sorry.

I'm pretty sure I know the name, but I'll go ahead and let King County announce it in style 10 a.m. July 20 at Redmond Central Connector Park (hmm, this trail isn't the only thing that could use a better name).

We reported a while back on the contending names for the under-construction trail, which is planned to connect from Renton to Redmond. None of the names were notably amazing or seemed to find a strong following of supporters. I've been referring to it as "The Eastside Trail" for years now since it's official name "The Eastside Rail Corridor Trail" is a real mouthful. Of course, there are several trails on the Eastside, so my name wasn't all that great, either. In Kirkland, it is known as the Cross-Kirkland Corridor Trail, a name that will remain in use for the Kirkland-owned section.

Maybe if King County succeeds in fully funding and completing the trail according to its ambitious schedule, someday we'll name it the DowWay or the Baldutrail. Honestly, if the county completes a fully-separated rail trail from Renton to Redmond, they can call it whatever they want. It will be amazing.

It's worth noting that passing the King County Parks ballot initiative this August would go a long way to helping to build this thing. So we should really do that.